Key Ideas and Detail
Craft and Structure
Campus Life
Language and Editing
Test Taking Strategies
100

This is the central message or the lesson that the author wants you to learn.

What is theme?

100

A type of figurative language that compares to things using “like” or “as”.

What is a simile.

100

What school do you go to?

What is Lawnwood Elementary.

100

Read the sentence below and choose the appropriate answer.

After that, I might mow my lawn; it's getting pretty long.

A. lawn? It's

B. lawn: it's 

C. lawn. It's

D. Correct as is

What is C.

100

This strategy is used to eliminate answer choices

What is X or cross out.

200

Sometimes we have to “read between the lines.” Authors don’t always tell us everything. We need to use textual evidence and prior knowledge to understand the text better.

What is making an inference?
200

 The point of view that is determined using the pronouns, I, me, and my.

What is 1st person point of view.

200

In class you use numbers

What is math class.

200

Read the sentence below and choose the appropriate answer.

Jaime been applying for full-time jobs for several months.

A. have been applying

B. has been applying

C. have applying

D. Correct as is

What is B.

200

This strategy is what you should use after you have finished your test.

What is check your work.

300

In literature, the following are examples of what: 

generous, loyal, devoted, loving, an kind 

What are character traits?

300

The following has a specific text structure. “Dr. Miller doesn’t want the tigers to vanish. These majestic beasts are disappearing at an alarming rate. Dr. Miller thinks that we should write to our congress people. If we let them know that we demand the preservation of this species, maybe we can make a difference. Dr. Miller also thinks that we should donate to Save the Tigers. Our donations will help to support and empower those who are fighting the hardest to preserve the tigers. We owe it to our grandchildren to do something.”

What is problem and solution.

300

At Lawnwood, how do you walk in line?

What is single, straight, and silent

300

Read the sentence below and choose the appropriate answer.

I've had a terrible cold about several days.

A. for several days.

B. for days several.

C. during several days.

D. Correct as is

What is A.

300

This is what you underline in the passage to support your answer.

What is evidence or proof.

400

When you think of bands, you may think of a famous pop or rock music group. They represent one kind of band. There are actually a variety of bands that we can enjoy. Marching bands often perform in parades. Concert bands perform indoors, seated. Brass bands are often formed in the military. Then there is what we call "Big Band" music; this is large dance or jazz band music from the era of the mid-twentieth century. A garage band is a group of musicians that practice in someone's garage! 

The main idea in this passage is: 

 a. Most of us think bands are for pop or rock music.  

b. A group of musicians who practice in someone's garage are a garage band.  

c. Marching bands perform in parades. 

What is D.

400

The news story was based on a letter that was a fabrication. Now the reporter who wrote the story is in big trouble. Will anyone believe him again? 

A fabrication is ________. 

a. Made of cloth 

b. Full of words 

c. Funny 

d. Fake 

What is D

400

This is who you see when you are not feeling well

Mrs. Grossman

400

Read the sentence below and choose the appropriate answer.

When I turned the doorknob, the door opened easily opened.

A. the door opened easy.

B. it opened easy.

C. it opened easily.

D. Correct as is

What is D.

400

This is the first strategy you should use when taking your test.

What is read your questions first.

500

E. Coli is a germ. In large amounts E. Coli is bad. It can make you very sick. But some E. Coli can be good. E. Coli helps your body digest green vegetables and beans. E. Coli can also help make gas in your body. Your body also uses E. Coli to make vitamin K. This helps your blood to clot. This helps stop your blood when you get a cut. Too much E. Coli can make you sick, but the right amount can be good for you. 

According to this passage, why is vitamin K important? 

a. It is an important germ. 

b. It keeps your body healthy. 

c. It helps your blood clot. 

d. It creates E. Coli.

What is C?

500

Based on The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 

The speaker of the poem wishes that he or she did not have to make a choice between the roads. 

What lines from the poem support this statement? 

 a. And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood  

b. Though as for that, the passing there/Had worn them really about the same  

c. And both that morning equally lay/In leaves no step had trodden black  

d. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,/I took the one less traveled by

What is A

500

Paws stands for:

What is Pride, Accountability, We are Respectful, Stay Safe.

500

Read the sentence below and choose the appropriate answer.

My sister said that there was a nail sticking our of the side of the table because it looked ok to me.

A. table, or

B. table, but

C. table, so

D. Correct as is

What is B.

500

This strategy is used to help understand what the question is asking you.

What is underline/circle key words in the question.